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The period in the 1960s when the song 'Society's Child' was released and its impact on the civil rights movement.
Charlie Kirk publicly stated that “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s,” a line reported from his December 2023 AmericaFest remarks and repeated by him in other for...
Allegations of “paid agitators” stretch from early 20th‑century warnings about organized minorities through the Civil Rights era’s “outside agitator” trope to contemporary claims about hired actors an...
The Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
Political leaders’ accusations that protests are driven by “paid agitators” have a long rhetorical history and often function as a delegitimizing trope, but empirical investigations have produced a mi...
means shifting units from state control (typically under Title 32 or state active duty) into federal service under Title 10 so they answer to the president and Department of Defense rather than a gove...
has been a narrowly used but potent presidential tool in the 20th and 21st centuries: presidents most notably invoked it during the to enforce federal court orders, deployed it in a handful of large d...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked in response to 30 distinct crises over the past two centuries, and those invocations were issued by a limited number of presidents (with one Army general acting o...
During Reconstruction the Insurrection Act was principally wielded by President Ulysses S. Grant to suppress organized white supremacist violence—most prominently the Ku Klux Klan—after Congress expan...
, unable to regain broad electoral power after the , gradually shifted from overt mass terror and explicit party politics toward a mix of covert institutional influence, rhetorical rebranding, digital...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times over more than two centuries, by somewhere between 15 and 17 different presidents depending on how historians count partial or contested uses, an...
was written by as a teenager and released amid the ; its frank portrayal of an interracial teenage romance provoked radio bans, death threats, and critical recognition, making it a flashpoint in 1960s...
Across recent years state have routinely shifted between two public-facing roles — humanitarian logistics (running drive‑through food distributions, staffing food banks, helping with medical surges) a...
The political alliance between the (largely white evangelical Protestants and allied conservative Catholics) and the emerged over decades but coalesced in the 1970s and became a durable force by the 1...
Places of worship have been treated in two contrasting ways during protests tied to federal law-enforcement actions: as shields and sanctuaries that protestors sometimes occupy or invoke for moral aut...
Deliberately trying to "pit" Nazis against the Ku Klux Klan is theoretically possible because the groups share overlapping but distinct constituencies and histories of both cooperation and conflict, y...